The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 851

Heat hung heavy and thick in the air.

It tantalized Thalassa’s senses, causing her taut heart to skip a beat.

No one understood Lysander’s current state better than she did.

Her internal alarm bells were sounding, but she was paralyzed and frozen in place.

In silence, she held Elowen’s soft and little body in her arms. Behind her, Lysander’s broad, heated chest enveloped her; his arms were wrapping around her, and his hot breath was falling on the nape of her neck.

She was torn between protecting her precious baby and the imminent danger of the beast that could tear her to shreds at any moment.

Time ticked away.

Elowen grew softer in her arms. She had fallen asleep.

didn’t diminish. She had no clue if he

to move, but a low, magnetic male voice stopped

funeral?” His voice was laced with a hint

to move, suddenly froze; her nerves were

her puzzled and alarmed, unable to decipher his intentions or his current state of

his nephew, was dead. Didn’t

Lysander demanded when she didn’t respond.

regretful for

didn’t you come to me?” Lysander

nuzzled her neck. His words, transformed into breath, brushed against her

not keep silent.

If I had come to you, it would have put you in a

from attending Leopold’s funeral, Thalassa had abandoned the idea altogether.